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  • Usage in publication:
    • City Creek limestone*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Wasatch uplift
Publication:

Crittenden, M.D., Jr., Sharp, B.J., and Calkins, F.C., 1952, Geology of the Wasatch Mountains east of Salt Lake City, Parleys Canyon to the Traverse Range [Utah], IN Marsell, R.E., ed., Geology of the central Wasatch Mountains, Utah: Utah Geological Society, Guidebook to the geology of Utah, no. 8, p. 3-4.


Summary:

Named "temporarily" for City Creek Canyon, Salt Lake Co, UT on Wasatch uplift. Name applied to 160 ft of fossiliferous gray shaly limestone as a field term. No type locality designated. The limestone is medium to thick bedded and weathers mottled olive tan. Overlies Swan Peak? quartzite. Underlies an unnamed Mississippian dolomite. Assigned a Late Devonian age. Is similar in lithology and fauna to Pinyon Peak limestone of the Tintic district. Geologic map.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


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